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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Weird behavior with modular type
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"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
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>I still can't explain the first and the second interpretation. In the 
>first case "10 ** I" seems to be interpreted as "(10 ** I) mod 256" and 
>"Natural'Pos (10 ** I)" seems not.

Yes, that's right of course. In the first case, everything has your modular 
type, in the latter case the expression has type Universal_Integer (which is 
obviously different).

Ada always prefers non-universal types, so those are only used in rare 
circumstances.

                                            Randy.